Ohuesti

Ohuesti is a term that appears in worldbuilding and speculative fiction to designate a coastal, city-state region and its associated culture. In most renderings, the Ohuesti are depicted as peoples of an archipelagic coast, with strong maritime trade networks and a tradition of oral storytelling. The name is presented as originating from a fictional language, with the word ohuesti commonly interpreted to mean “edge of the sea” or “watchers by the harbor.”

Geography and society: The region is described as a crescent of islands in a temperate to subpolar sea, with windward cliffs, mangrove estuaries in lagoons, and tide-driven canals. Governance tends to be composed of harbor guilds and councils rather than a centralized monarchy; public space centers on markets, fish docks, and a council house called the Hall of Woven Maps.

Culture and daily life: Ohuestians are portrayed as skilled seafarers and tradespeople, with a strong tradition of memory-keeping and genealogies; clothing uses dyed fibers; architecture features raised houses on stilts, stone piers, and carved emblems along the waterfront.

In fiction and scholarship: The term appears in several novels, RPG sourcebooks, and worldbuilding guides as an exemplar of maritime urbanism; scholars use Ohuesti as a case study for how fictional cultures encode social memory and trade networks.